Extending the code

Hans-Ulrich Mohr Introduction: The Code of Contemporary Drama and Theatre and its Functions Theodore Shank Beyond Illusion: American Alternative Theatre Aleks Sierz 'To Recommend a Cure': Beyond Social Realism and In-Yer-Face Theatre Annette Pankratz Signifiying Nothing and Everything: The Extension of the Code and Hyerreal Simulations Piet Defraeye In-Yer-Face Theatre? Reflections on Provocation and Provoked Audiences in Contemporary Theatre Silvija Jestrovic Body and Machine: Extending the Codes in Theatre of Laurie Anderson and Robert Wilson Clare Wallace Dramas of Radical Alterity: Sarah Kane and Codes of Trauma for a Postmodern Age Mateusz Borowski Gendered Bodies - Historical Bodies: The Development of the Brechtian Convetion in Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine and Mark Ravenhill's Mother Clap's Molly House Mark Schreiber 'The Celtic Tiger Is Trapped and Speaks With a Twisted Tongue': Language, Space, and the Question of Identity in the Plays of Enda Walsh Marion Hebach 'Published and Perished': The Blurring of Boundaries in Margret Edson's Wit Kathleen Starck Battefield 'Body': Gregory Burke's Gagarian Way and Anthony Neilson's Stiching Christopher Innes Cross-Cultural Connections - Indian Signs/English Conventions Christiane Schlote 'How Many Things Make a Home, and How Many Can We Carry?': Staged Migrations and Globalized Aesthetics in Tara Arts' Journey to the West Dieter Riemenschneider Maori Contemporary Theatre in English: Witi Ihimaera, Woman Far Walking (2000) Wumi Raji Transformed Identities: Cultural Transgression and Postcolonial Transformation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's and Ngugi wa Mirii's I Will Marry When I Want Adele Edling Shank Creating Plays for the New Theatre: A Playwriting Workshop